Faculty of Arts Events Calendar
Public Lecture: IAS Visiting Fellow Professor Andrew Burke (Winnipeg University), 鈥楩rom Public Service Announcements to Sign-Off Sequences: Television, Archives, Memory, and Nostalgia鈥�
Location: Theatre Absolute鈥檚 Shopfront Theatre, Coventry
Public Lecture: IAS Visiting Fellow Professor Andrew Burke (Winnipeg University), 鈥楩rom Public Service Announcements to Sign-Off Sequences: Television, Archives, Memory, and Nostalgia鈥�
Date: 9/7/2019
Time: 4.30pm
Venue: Theatre Absolute鈥檚 Shopfront Theatre, Coventry
All welcome.
About: What do we remember from television鈥檚 past? In this talk, Andrew Burke examines the grip that the parts beyond the programming – from public service announcements to station identifications to sign-off sequences – have on cultural memory. Drawing specifically on the history of Canadian television, this paper explores the connections between nation and nostalgia, affect and archive. How might a new category, the paratelevisual, help us understand the ways in which these half-remembered elements of television鈥檚 past continue to haunt and fascinate us?